Slow Mo video, Bellows, Hawaii, July 2018:
Video assault on Pyramid Rock Beach, July 2018:
Video AAV7 ground ops, Twentynine Palms, California, June 2018:
Video USS Oak Hill recovers AAV7, Baltic Sea, June 2018:
Video USS Ashland AAV7 deployment, Philippine Sea, April 2018:
Video, ocean towing an AAV7, Okinawa, Japan, March 2018:
Video Assault Amphibious Vehicle AAV7-A1, Camp Pendleton, California, October 2014:
08JUL2018 /21:55 UTC-07 Tango 06 (18 Tir 1397/25 Shawwal 1439/26 Ji-Wei 4716)
More proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change for coral reef deaths: In November 2015 the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned Skincare Chemical Threatens Coral Reefs.
Time.com, in 2015, said Sunscreen Killing Reefs.
In February 2018, the Sweden based International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) revealed the impacts of sunscreens on coral reefs.
In April 2018 National Geographic reported Sunscreen, Clothing, And Other Coral Reef-Safe Alternatives.
At the end of June, 2018, Mother Nature News said Why your sunscreen is bad for coral reefs.
And for more proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change glacier melt-off, recent discoveries reveal that polar ice sheets are actually melting due to volcanic activity. In August 2017 The Guardian reported Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet.
In October 2017 The Weather Channel reported Volcanic Eruptions May Be Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Sheets.
In June 2018, the Independent reported Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier.
Now onto the most recent volcanic/seismic activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Which Ring of Fire Volcano is next to blow?
Volcanoes from Space: 50 Breathtaking Astronaut and Satellite Photos
Latin America’s Top Most Dangerous Volcanoes
Volcanic activity worldwide 8 Jul 2018
CANADA: Seismologist warns peers to be careful about what they tell the news media!
Red flag over tsunami warning system
expected powerful earthquake with thousands of victims
CHILE: Minor earthquake – Antofagasta
Volcanic complex in Chile’s south could erupt within days
ECUADOR: Mag. 3.8 earthquake – NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR
Galapagos’ Sierra Negra volcano eruption triggers evacuation
GUATEMALA: Survivors of deadly Fuego Volcano begging United States for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
Are the Central American Volcanoes Waking Up?
INDONESIA: Krakatau erupts
Ritual sacrifice draws crowds to Indonesia volcano
Moderate earthquake – Southern Sumatra
Third earthquake in 2018 in Lebak: Is Jakarta ready for megathrust quake?
Earthquake jolts Indonesia’s Bali after Mount Agung erupts
JAPAN: Strong 6.0 earthquake rocks Tokyo
Government Map Forecasts Likely Future Japanese Earthquakes
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Tokyo, eruption of Ebeko
Death toll climbs after 6.1 temblor strikes Osaka
MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Chiapas
Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes off Jalisco coast
NEW ZEALAND: Taranaki probably the volcano most at risk of large eruption
A Māori view of the rising volcanic activity
PERU: Sabancaya Volcanic Ash Advisory
Moderate earthquake – Central Peru
RUSSIA: Earthquake HITS volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula
Mag. 5.1 earthquake – Southeastern Siberia
Video, Russian ice lava:
UNITED STATES: The U.S. has over 160 active volcanoes.
Alaska: Volcano Mount Cleveland Could Erupt Soon
California: 4.6 earthquake shakes California-Nevada state line
Earthquake Rattles San Bernardino County
Beyond lava and ash: Stanford geologists explain what makes volcanoes dangerous
Geologists detail likely site of San Andreas Fault’s next major quake
Scientists Fear ‘Slow Earthquakes’ Will Lead To The Next Big California Quake
Salton Sea Could be Ground Zero for Next Big California Earthquake
A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
Hawaii: In July, Hawaii became first U.S. state to ban sunscreen.
Scientists defy ‘force of nature’ to unlock secrets of Hawaii volcano
Volcano evacuees suffering ‘shelter fatigue’
American Land in Pacific Grows Bigger
Idaho: Yet more unexplained Minor earthquakes in Soda Springs
Nevada: 3rd most earthquake-active state in U.S.
Oregon: Earthquake Simulation Reveals Dangers
City mayor doubts Oregon State University computer Cascadia Event models
Cascadia Event training, Warrenton, Oregon, June 2018
Despite doubts by a city mayor, Oregon’s National Guard conducted a small Cascadia Event exercise during June. Dubbed Pathfinder-Minuteman refresher training it revealed that the biggest problem for emergency responders is communication between different groups: “The biggest part of all of this training is team communication. I watched other teams struggle because of communication issues…”-Allison Journey, volunteer taking part in the training for the first time
Small earthquake off coast becomes fifth to strike since April
Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon
Washington: Yet another Cascadia Event FEMA drill planned, including Idaho and Oregon
Tsunami from Cascadia Event would reach Bellingham in 90 minutes!
Future 9.0 Cascadia Event could produce 5.5-meter (18 feet) deep tsunami
Skagit County gets new maps for tsunami planning
Wyoming: Strange things are happening here
Canadians who walked on Yellowstone hot spring die
Yellowstone’s normally dormant Steamboat Geyser erupts 11th time in 2018
After first poo-pooing eruptions, scientists are finally concerned over Steamboat Geyser’s sudden re-awakening
Yellowstone’s magma chamber is more powerful than we knew
Yellowstone super-volcano warning as heat build-up stronger than first reported
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: ACTIVITY STRIKES IDAHO? VOLCANOES JUST DESTROYED ALL HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE! GET READY FOR CASCADIA!
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: SEISMOLOGIST SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD PREPARE FOR QUAKE THAT WILL LAST AN HOUR AND CREATE DAYS OF TSUNAMIS!
26JUN2018 /20:13 UTC-07 Tango 06 (06 Tir 1397/13 Shawwal 1439/14 Wu-Wu 4716)
“No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.”-Japanese law, however, after a long permitting procedure a person can own a single-fire gun designed for hunting or sport-shooting (you must first own a shotgun for ten years without incident before owning a rifle)
Once again, U.S. puppet Japan’s total gun ban has failed. This time a military veteran stabbed to death a cop, took his gun and shoots to death a school security guard. 4-hundred students hunkered down in the small Okuda Elementary School’s gym. The military vet was then shot and wounded by police.
On Japanese state TV (NHK) stunned parents made the usual statement; “I never thought it could happen here!” But as opposed to the United States, where owning a military grade weapon (that’s what the word ‘arms’ means) is a Constitutional Right, in Japan there is a near total gun ban (even edged weapons).
Toyama Police say the veteran had three knives in his possession, they became aware of the veteran after people called in saying a man with knives was hanging around the school. Reports say teachers tried defending the school with broomsticks (after the security guard was killed). A woman told The Japan Times that she thought the area was safe “because there’s a police box near here.” She never thought anybody would attack a gun armed cop with a knife.
Update: Japanese news reports suggest the veteran might have been bullied at work, by his boss.
Japan’s national police agency admitted that in 2017 there were at least 22 documented cases of guns being used in crimes.
And let’s not forget knives: Japanese blogger stabbed to death after giving lecture on how to manage online disputes
TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: JAPAN, COPS, BULLIES, SUICIDE
RED NECK FAIL: COVERT CIVIL WAR IN TEXAS CAUSES BULLIED IMMIGRANT TO SHOOT UP SCHOOL WITH SHOTGUN?
Washington Post: College Board is accused of using school shootings to promote its Advanced Placement
Blind Bat News 2014: February 2013 Washington Post article, which reported that Chicago schools get extra money from the U.S. Department of Education to “recover” from the trauma of shootings!
14APR2018 (14:54 UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Farvardin 1397/28 Rajab 1439/29 Bing-Chen 4716
“I’m scared because the arrested suspect is a police officer who is supposed to ensure our safety.”-78 years old police state loving Japanese shocked that cops are shooting cops
A teenaged police ‘officer’ in Hikone shot and killed another cop, because the older cop was bullying the younger cop (who was only 19 years old).
Notice that the teenaged cop used an excuse that’s been used by every teenaged school shooter in the United States: He was being bullied.
In the United States bullying is not dealt with, other than meaningless taxpayer funded public service announcements, and useless social media operations. Instead, everything is blamed on guns.
One anti-gun argument in the United states is that banning guns will reduce suicides. Wrong! In total-gun-ban Japan bullying has become institutionalized, resulting in Japan having one of the highest suicide rates in the world (anti-gun Russia and total-gun-ban China beating out Japan in suicides), according the UN World Health Organization.
But this latest shooting in Japan wasn’t the only one in the past two weeks. In the city of Toyooka, a Filipino immigrant was arrested for shooting his eight months old baby with airsoft pellets, because the baby wouldn’t stop crying.
In November last year, I revealed that there is an overt Japanese based anti-2nd Amendment operation within the United States. There is a possible connection between the recent anti-2nd Amendment March for Our Lives operations and the Japan based operation.
Don’t be fooled by official crime stats out of Japan, they’re skewed in favor of a police state system. And official stats claiming unbelievably low gun possession rates can’t be trusted because the powerful Yakuza (which actually operates as a shadow government in Japan) has a lot of guns, in fact most crimes involving the Yakuza are not counted in official crime stats.
The following links are just the tip of the iceberg regarding the truth about violence in anti-gun Japan.
Asia Times:Japan’s prison nursing homes: shoplifting for elderly care
Irish Times: Japan’s crime problem? Too many police
Reuters: Indian man dies in Japanese immigration detention center
The Business of Fashion: Can ‘Sick-Cute’ Fashion Break Japan’s Silence on Suicide?
NextShark: Another YouTuber Visits Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’, This Time To Save Lives
The Japan Times: Man gets 30 years over fatal stabbing of father of three
After 14 years police finally arrest man for stabbing a girl to death
2013: HOMELESS PEOPLE USED AS SLAVE LABOR BY YAKUZA!
2012: U.S. BEEN DOING BUSINESS WITH YAKUZA
2011: YAKUZA BEATS OUT JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ON DISASTER RESPONSE
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
Video, U.S. Marines assist with Cyclone Marcus clean-up in Australia, 22MAR2018:
Department of Defense video update on activities with Indonesia and Japan, 20MAR2018:
U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 Seabees building a school addition in Indonesia, under the gaze of students, 30MAR2018
Video, U.S. tax dollars at work supporting Pacific Partnership 2018 event at Teaching Farm University Dehasen near Bengkulu, Indonesia, 31MAR2018:
News media get U.S. taxpayer funded ride on MV-22B in Okinawa, Japan, 09MAR2018, after a series of V-22 crashes and other incidents
Intimidating Japanese news media with U.S. flags aboard MV-22B Osprey in Okinawa
Senator Elizabeth Warren visits U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, 27MAR2018
Department of Defense video, Iwo Jima and Korea:
Video of military personnel volunteering to make bread for Korean orphans:
Osan Girl Scouts of Osan Air Base donated almost 200 boxes of cookies to Seongju, Korea, 13MAR2018
A very sexist video about U.S. female military personnel in the Pacific:
Official opening ceremony for Pacific Partnership 2018, off the island of Yap, aboard USNS Brunswick, 20MAR2018
Since 2006, 22 partner nations around the globe have participated in Pacific Partnership providing medical/veterinary care and completing nearly 2-hundred engineering projects throughout the region.
At the end of march, the U.S. Army deployed animal care specialists to the island of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia: “There are no practicing veterinarians in Yap. The U.S. Army is the only branch of service with clinical veterinarians, and we are honored to be here in Yap working side-by-side with local professionals.”-Captain Adam Boe
“YAPS [Yap Animal Protection Society] consists of nearly twenty volunteers dedicated to bringing veterinarians from nearby countries through donations and fundraising campaigns.”-Captain Trevor Tenney
Video U.S. Navy hospital ship Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, 20MAR2018:
Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Lisa Braulik, from Old Town, Idaho, aboard USS Bonhomme Richard in the Philippine Sea, 28MAR2018
USAF Band U.S. Embassy Celebration of Friendship with Kingdom of Thailand, 23MAR2018
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, 25MAR2018
Video of USS Carl Vinson flying the Vietnamese flag, 06MAR2018, it was the first time in more than 40 years that a U.S. aircraft carrier was in Vietnam:
AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018
I am disappointed with Ship Craft 17 Iowa Class Battleships, while it is still a good overview for somebody just getting into building the iconic battleships it doesn’t pack the information that the excellent Ship Craft 16 Hipper Class Ships does, and in the same number of pages.
Ship Craft 17 (copyright 2012 Seaforth Publishing) fails in, among other areas, the kit review section, primarily in the 1:500 through 1:600 range. It also fails to mention the 1:350 scale Revell kit so I’ll mention it here; stay away from that kit as it is a revised version of the inaccurate Otaki-Life Like Hobbies kit first issued as a World War-2 Missouri in 1971 (revised in 1983 to look like a modernized ship, before being sold to Revell who’s been revising-reissuing it ever since, it was even issued under the Monogram label in the 1990s). Recently Revell-Germany re-issued it with a mass of aftermarket parts to make it look better, but the result is that you have to spend a crap-load of money and end up doing even more work on a kit to make it resemble a ‘modern’ Iowa Class ship.
I’m a fan of 1:600 scale battleships because they’re small enough you can display a lot of them on a single bookshelf and are still big enough that your guests don’t go blind looking at your handy-work. Plus, they were basically the only battleship kits I could get my hands on as a kid in the 1970s. Because the highly praised Ship Craft series failed to discuss these kits, and because I’m amazed at the high prices kit sellers on the internet are demanding for them, I feel compelled to do my own review of these now ancient, and unfortunately crappy kits.
Iowa Class=Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin
The first offender is Revell’s 1:535 offering. First released in 1953, terrible, inaccurate, does not come with water-screws (propellers) but has one rudder (the real ship has two rudders). Hull bow incorrectly angled, aft end of hull shaped like a step-pyramid. Wood planks on deck represented by continuous raised lines. Anti-aircraft .50 cal guns represented by molded-on crucifixes. Molded on life boats in the upside down position. Blocky looking Seahawk float-planes. The decals for the ship’s hull number are the large ‘shadowed’ post World War-2 type, yet the kit is supposed to be the World War-2 version. Amazingly Revell repeatedly re-issues the crappy kit, and for some odd reason people are willing to pay high prices for it. To make things more confusing, in the mid-1990s Revell began using the original artwork for Monogram’s 1:665 (16 inch) Missouri for its 1:535 Missouri.
Aurora’s 1:600 offering was first released in 1957 (Ship Craft 17 says “in the early 1960’s”), it looks like a scaled down version of Revell’s 1:535 kit. The hull bow has the same angle and the stern has the same stepped pyramid shape, except Aurora gives you four propellers. The propellers are incorrect as they have three blades per screw, the real ship has four bladed screws outboard and five bladed screws inboard. You get one big ugly rudder. The deck detailing is similar to Revell’s except for recessed wood plank lines (which are also continuous/unbroken) and molded on solid railing. The life boats are molded separate, the Seahawks look better than Revell’s. The main gun turrets look like scaled down Revell turrets. Interestingly the Aurora kits are the only ones in this review that provide boarding ladders, but there is no mention of them in the instructions.
From the mid-1960s to mid-1970s Aurora used some excellent artwork on their boxes. For the Iowa Class ships the artist actually did a better job representing the ships than the kit itself. The Missouri is painted in its post World War-2/Korean War guise, still bristling with anti-aircraft guns but minus its Seahawk float-planes. The Iowa also looks to be depicted as post World War-2/Korea, and the New Jersey (the best artwork of the bunch in my opinion) is in its Vietnam War livery with the big rectangular ECM box on its forward tower, and a helicopter pad on its aft deck (unfortunately the artist failed to mount the big antenna on the bow). Regardless of the box artwork each kit is the same World War-2 version, yet the decals for the ship’s hull numbers are the large ‘shadowed’ post World War-2 type (World War-2 hull numbers were small with no ‘shadowing’).
Monogram (not mentioned in Ship Craft 17) entered the Iowa Class race in 1976 with issues of Missouri, New Jersey and Wisconsin (in that order). THEY ARE NOT RE-ISSUES OF AURORA KITS, OR REVELL KITS! Also, I’ve seen them listed as 1:600 scale, they are a smaller 1:665 scale. The odd scale is the result of Monogram deciding to issue battleship kits based on a standard 16-inch (40cm) hull (as stated on the box), rather than a ‘constant scale’. The hull has the best looking bow of the bunch, even has the three ‘eyes’ for anchors and cables, however, there are mysterious vertical lines along the hull sides (the real ships have noticeable horizontal lines down the length of the hull), and the stern is still incorrectly shaped. You get four propellers but they’re all four bladed. The most accurate looking parts of this kit are the two rudders and the excellent looking secondary gun turrets-guns (which are the same size as 1:600 scale Aurora/Otaki). Amazingly for a late 1970s issued kit the deck looks like it came right outta the 1950s (which might explain why some people think its a revised issue of the Revell or Aurora kits), it even has the raised wood deck lines and crucifix .50 caliber machine guns similar to Revell’s. There are two Kingfisher float-planes and the hull number decals are the small WW-2 type, yet the main mast looks like the type fitted after WW-2.
In 1984 Japan’s Otaki issued a 1:600 scale motorized version of a modern Iowa Class ship (not mentioned in Ship Craft 17). In the mid-1980s Otaki became Arii and it was issued under that label. It has been ripped-off and issued by Korea’s Kangnam and China’s Lee (aka C.C. Lee, aka Shanghai C.C.Lee Model Company). It is currently issued by Japan’s MicroAce (the new Arii). From here on out I’ll refer to this kit as The Asian Kit. The kit is totally lacking in detail, and even though the hull and deck size is similar to Aurora’s 1:600 hull/deck the main gun turrets are as big as the bigger Revell kit’s turrets. The helicopters are crappy, the Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers are a bad joke, the secondary gun turrets are chunks with stubs for guns, the Phalanx gatling gun systems are fat and missing the barrels. The life boats are huge. The stern of the hull is close to being accurate, but the propellers are all four bladed, you get two rudders. The kit is not worth the full U.S. MSRP (Manufacture’s Suggested Retail Price) that the majority of internet sellers demand.
Here’s more depressing news; Main Gun Turrets-Guns: Aurora’s turrets are the smallest yet resemble Revell’s, also the guns are as big as The Asian Kit’s. The Asian Kit’s turrets are almost as big in diameter as Revell’s, they are devoid of detailing, except for recessed ladders. Revell’s main gun tubes will not fit into Revell’s turrets. Monogram’s turrets are slightly bigger than Aurora’s, the guns look the most accurate, are the same diameter as the 1:600 scale kits, but shorter in length, the anti-aircraft gun enclosures on the top of the turrets are the wrong shape.
Superstructure: All kits lack detailing. The Asian Kit is the worst offender completely devoid of details, it is molded separately and look like that ancient underwater ‘structure’ known as Yonaguni Submarine Ruins.
Here’s some pictorial evidence to back up accusations against the offenders (click each pic to view more in the full-sized image):
There’s no excuse for Revell’s continuous re-issuing of their crappy kit (in fact they’ve just re-issued it again). You’d think with the merging of Revell and Monogram, in the 1990s, they’d issue the better Monogram kit. It should be noted that Monogram’s 16 inch Iowa kits were rarely issued (for some unknown reason), along with Monogram’s 16 inch Bismarck/Tirpitz (which works out to about 1:615/17 scale, a 1:600 scale Bismarck hull is approximately 16 & 3/8th inches long). I remember reading an article, many years ago, that was talking about a train derailment and fire that destroyed many of the Aurora molds that had just been purchased by Monogram. I believe it happened in 1979, the Monogram 16 inch battleship kits were originally issued between 1976 and 1978. It would make sense that they were never issued again if their molds were also destroyed in that train fire, and it would explain why both the Monogram and Aurora kits command high prices on the internet, however, I’ve seen issues of the Monogram 1:665 (16 inch) Iowa kits in 1990s style boxes, and even the original late 1970s boxes but with 1990s style Skill Level 2 stickers on the shrink-wrap (you can’t trust the copyright date on boxes as being indicative of when that particular kit was issued).
Regarding Ship Craft 17, it’s still a great starting point for learning about the ship and has enough information in the text that you’d realize there isn’t, as yet, a model kit in any scale of the Iowa Class that doesn’t have some discrepancy (which is amazing considering the historical importance of the world’s last and best battleships).
It would take a lot of work to correct the old American kits. The Asian Kit’s near total lack of detail has an advantage; it makes it easier to detail-up with aftermarket parts and scratch building, you could even back date it to Vietnam, Korea or WW-2. There are plenty of aftermarket photo etched sets for 1:600 Fast U.S. Battleships, and a company called Model Monkey is producing 1:600 scale 3D printed ‘correction’ parts, including an early WW2 rounded bridge for the New Jersey.
I end this review by appealing to Hornby-Airfix to produce a new line of 1:600 scale Iowa Class ships, including options for World War-2, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm.
ITALERI 1:720 DEUTSCHLAND, LUTZOW, SCHEER & GRAF SPEE
09FEB2018 (01:37 UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Bahman 1396/23 Jumada l-Ula 1439/24 Ren-Yin 4715
Nippon’s (Japan) Toyota, Honda and Nissan reported that together they expect to make a record profit $22-billion USD, not from sales of cars to ‘Mericans, but partly off the pro-corporate U.S. tax reforms.
Residents of many U.S. states are only now being informed that the federal tax reforms are going to actually cost them more money, some states even passing new state level tax rules to alleviate the burden. Yet administrators of Toyota, Honda and Nissan told Japanese news media that their expected record profits include $7-billion coming directly from the U.S. 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act!
It’s just more evidence that America’s economy is dominated by foreigners.
GREAT RENEGER, 2017: OFF-SHORING OF U.S. JOBS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL INVESTOR MORALE IMPROVES!
BARBARIANS SACKING ROME: FOREIGN LANDLORDS NOW CONTROL THE ‘AMERICAN’ DREAM!
26JAN2018 (13:09 UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Bahman 1396/09 Jumada l-Ula 1439/10 Xin-Chou (12th month) 4715
“We remain on red alert… …gearing up for three months…”-Romina Marasigan, government disaster agency worker
For awhile now I’ve been suspecting that the ongoing earthquakes in southeastern Idaho could be the result of secretive fracking operations by the petroleum industry. But this time it might be due to a sudden increase in activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Here’s the rundown:
During the second week of January 2018, Mount Mayon in Philippines begins small eruptions and lava flows, then on 23JAN2018 it begins large eruptions. 25JAN2018, massive lava flows begin, eruptions continue. Now at least 81-thousand people forced to evacuate, and told eruptions could last three months!
18JAN2018: Big Waves, Flooding Batter Oregon And Washington Coasts
23JAN2018, in Japan, northwest of Tokyo, a volcano (Mount Kusatsu-Shirane) suddenly erupts. Cell phone video shows the eruption occurred in a new area not associated with the volcano, on the slopes of a ski resort. One soldier killed while taking part in ski training, 11 people injured.
23JAN2018, magnitude 7.9 quake strikes off the southern coast of Alaska.
25JAN2018, magnitude 5.8 quake strikes off the coast of northern California.
25JAN2018, the Soda Springs area of the inland state of Idaho hit with numerous 3 and 4 magnitude quakes (again).
One volcano can destroy all human attempts at curbing human caused air pollution, so stop trying to waste your taxpayer funding on trying to stop climate change. But volcanoes cause Ice Ages, not global warming, so mister-almost-was-president-of-the-U.S.-if-he-hadn’t-of-given-in-to-George-Bush-Jr-threats Al Gore, it looks like Mother Earth is taking care of ‘global warming’!
livescience: Research Shows Volcanic CO2 Levels Are Staggering
Oregon Field Guide warns of massive earthquake-tsunami Cascadia Event:
“Idaho’s participation helped raise awareness that the residual effects of an earthquake and tsunami along the coast would be felt in Idaho. That includes the possible need to accommodate tens of thousands of evacuees and displaced persons who were directly impacted.”–Federal Emergency Management Agency, June 2017
By the way, FEMA designates inland Idaho as the refugee destination for the expected massive Cascadia Event, which new computer models suggest will wipe out half of Oregon and Washington. Idaho’s population will suddenly explode by “tens of thousands” of people (maybe that’s why our exalted, and secretive, leaders keep talking about a huge future boost in population?)! But wait, if Yellowstone goes off then we all get wiped out!
Statesman Journal, 25JAN2018: Oregon unprepared for major disaster
“IT SHOOK MY ENTIRE HOUSE!” EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY AS MORE MINOR QUAKES HIT IDAHO!
FRACKING QUAKE SWARM HITS EAST IDAHO?
patch.com: Risk Of Cascadia Quake Elevated
washington.edu: 50 simulations of the ‘Really Big One’ show how a 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out
JAPAN FOOD CRISIS: WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?
GLOBAL WARMING ON EARTH STARTED 20-THOUSAND YEARS AGO!
YELLOWSTONE SUPER VOLCANO MORE MASSIVE THAN FIRST THOUGHT!
Seattle Times: Nearly 6,000 emergency, military personnel conduct biggest ever ‘Cascadia Rising’ exercise
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: JAPAN HIT WITH RECORD NUMBER OF QUAKES IN 2012 (NOT COUNTING 2011), ALREADY BIG START TO 2013!
WHY IS FEMA RUNNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PSA SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA QUAKE? Blame the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
23JAN2018 (01:18 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Bahman 1396/06 Jumada l-Ula 1439/07 Xin-Chou (12th month) 4715
“A series of unfortunate events.”-Shingo Kimura, Professor of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Elvers caught off Maine, U.S.A.
In Nippon (Japan) baby eels, known as Glass Eels or Elvers, are captured in the wild and then raised in fish farms. It’s such big business in Japan that even Republic of China (Taiwan) is involved. But this year there are almost no baby eels to catch, either around Japan or Taiwan!
It’s actually been like that since last year, a measly 0.2 metric tons were caught in December! One eel catcher was followed by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on his hunting trip. He worked for hours and caught 11 eels, his normal catch is in the hundreds!
2013 was considered a record low year for eel catches (5.2 tons), but this year is about to set a new record low. 1963 was the best year for eel catches, hitting 232 tons!
The disappearing eels are driving up prices, currently the equivalent of $32-thousand-650-hundred USD per kilogram (2.2 pounds)!
Professor Shingo Kimura blames it on a combination of overfishing and climate change.
What appears to be a sudden near-extinction of eels around Japan and Taiwan could bring a boost to eel catchers working off the coastline of Maine, in the United States. The state of Maine has just increased the number of glass eel/elver fishing licenses, to 425. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is also considering increasing the allowed catch beyond its current 4399.8 kilograms (9,700 pounds), in response to not only disappearing eels in Asia, but in Europe as well.
U.S. FOOD CRISIS, DECEMBER 2017: “WE GAVE IT A SHOT, IT JUST DIDN’T WORK.” “WE’RE LITERALLY WORKING FOR NOTHING.”
JAPAN FOOD CRISIS: WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?
FOOD CRISIS JAPAN: BLACK SWAN DEATHS REVEAL BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC
FOOD CRISIS: NO MORE MCDONALD’S, JAPAN STYLE? 131 RESTAURANTS SHUTTING DOWN DUE TO LACK OF FOOD?
FUKUSHIMA – WIPP – RADIATION FALLOUT: WILD FOOD CROPS CONTAMINATED, BANNED FROM SALE!
Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for November 2017:
Alligations of sexcrimes by your ‘elected’ officials not only revealed a now no longer secret federal taxpayer funded hush fund (Congress paid $17 million in settlements. Here’s why we know so little about that money), but even State’s have their own state taxpayer funded sexcrimes hush funds (“State governments’ practice of spending taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment lawsuits against legislators and staff has created an uproar…”)!
Alabama: A U.S. Army Reserve officer from The Heart of Dixie spending four years in prison, and forced to pay-up $4.4-million USD, for selling Chinese made caps and backpacks to U.S. Army Recruiting Command which requires such items to be made in the United States. According to the court documents, the officer got three federal government contracts worth $6.2-million for the recruiting items, which he falsely claimed were made in the United States.
Alaska: According to the Rain Coast Data/Southeast Conference, state government jobs declined by 720 from 2014 to 2017.
California: “We have rapists in this building. We have molesters among us. There are perpetrators, enforcers and enablers in this building, and … a lot of us know who they are. We find out through that whisper network. People do talk, they just don’t come forward.”-Christine Pelosi, California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus, talking about The Golden State’s government system
California’s electricity rates are still 50% higher that the national average, despite claims that mandating renewable energy sources would bring costs down. This as the state Public Utilities Commission predicted that Southern California Gas Company will fail to meet customers’ needs this Winter.
Colorado: State agencies warning people getting healthcare assistance for their children from a federally funded program to prepare to get nothing, because the federal government halted funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Connecticut: According to U.S. Government Spending, state government tax spending has outpaced the state’s gross domestic product (GDP), since the 1990s!
Florida: Federal taxpayers giving The Sunshine State at least $615-million USD to help recover from Hurricane Irma. Local news media pointed out that there is currently no plan on how to distribute the money and predicted most of the money won’t get to those who need it.
Georgia: The gov’na announced that taxpayers are being forced to pay an additional $35-million (on top of the $58-million) USD for a massive cyber security/cybercrimes unit campus in Augusta.
Idaho: Recently appointed (not elected) state-level senator from Idaho Falls, Tonny Potts, was revealed to have gone chapter 7 bankrupt busted back in March. Potts was appointed to his senator job by Right to Work (you over) gov’na Butch Otter in October. Current state level representative Ryan Kerby got a slap-on-the-wrist for committing a criminal act while he was superintendent for School District 372 (aka New Plymouth School District). According to the Professional Standards Commission’s review, Kerby “willfully or deliberately” submitted a falsified teacher qualification report. Kerby can challenge the slap-on-the-wrist letter of reprimand. More court proven cases of voter fraud as a man who lost his ‘right’ to vote (due to being on criminal probation) somehow voted in this month’s elections. Ada County elections employees warning that the three years old Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program doesn’t work, for a simple reason: “We learned the hard way that there are many people who share names and birth dates across the country.”-Phil McGrane, Ada County chief deputy clerk
Idaho Statesman: Idaho is sharing your private voter data (even though it promised not to)
Illinois: Cook County’s new budget calls for the elimination of 321 jobs due to a failed tax on soda-pop, starting in December: “The people should really wonder what kind of government we are when we are laying off this many people at this time of year. The people losing their jobs will never, never find a better job than the one they’ve lost.”-Larry Suffredin, county commissioner
Louisiana: The state’s First Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that the gov’na cannot issue an executive order protecting homosexuals working for state government from discrimination, harassment and firing based on their sexual thing.
Michigan: Local taxpayers in the Evart area are pissed about Switzerland based Nestlé’s request to increase its use of local water to 794-million liters (210-million U.S. gallons) yearly. The water is then sold as bottled water under various Nestlé brands at huge profits.
Mississippi: The state administered SNAP (commonly called food stamps) is under federal investigation for submitting fake food stamp claims.
Missouri: The current federal tax bill might save state taxpayers $1-billion USD by affecting something called ‘rolling conformity’ of standard deductions at the state level. State tax collection officials refused to comment to local news media as to what the state government would do to make up the difference.
Montana: The Treasure State could lose $30-million USD in federal taxpayer funding if the current federal tax plan becomes law. The loss would come from changes to ObamaCare-ACA and mining royalty payments. To offset the possible loss Montana politicians are thinking about jacking-up state taxes.
New Jersey: A taxpayer funded Bergen County animal shelter had a Catholic bishop bless the animals, and is now facing a lawsuit over 1st Amendment violation.
New York: Voters in The Empire State overwhelmingly voted against a Constitutional Convention. Such a thing could end the United States as we know it. British empire United Kingdom owned, U.S. taxpayer funded, Luxfer Magtech halting its manufacture of U.S. Department of Defense Meal Ready to Eat ‘flameless’ ration heater at its factory in Riverhead, 60 jobs gone by February 2018 due to production being moved to other factories.
North Carolina: After several years of ‘mistakes’ the state is now accused of owing federal Medicaid $41-million USD due to overpayments. It’s been revealed that the Office of State Human Resources does not keep records of government employees disciplined for sexual crimes. The state Department of Health and Human Services took-over mental health provider Cardinal Innovations for giving former executives millions of dollars in taxpayer funded severance.
Ohio: An audit revealed that over the past ten years $3.4-million USD in payments to the state government never made it into government accounts, because of criminal taxpayer funded government employees: “Time and again rogue employees have successfully robbed governments because they were entrusted with total, unchecked control over fiscal operations. It’s time for more administrators to take up shields and involve themselves in the defense of their financial resources.”-David Yost, state auditor
Oklahoma: State taxpayers have been paying for politicians to buy promotional items like key chains, stress balls and T-shirts, up to $58-million USD worth every year! It’s called ‘swag’ by insiders and gov’na Mary Fallin issued an executive order banning it.
Pennsylvania: Evil for-profit prison operator The Geo Group laid off 51 people at the Coleman Hall prison.
Puerto Rico: The island territory, which provides relatively little in national tax revenues, wants $94-billion USD in national taxpayer funding to deal with the unprecedented damage caused by Hurricane Maria. Hell, even the States are struggling to pay for things with both state and federal taxpayer funding, so where is all this extra natural disaster recovery funding coming from?
Tennessee: Developers working for Japan’s Toyota and Mazda want taxpayers to fork-over an additional $72-million USD to complete the Memphis Regional Megasite, which has already cost $144-million in state taxpayer funding! Toyota and Mazda claim they’ll hire 4-thousand people once the Megasite is finished! At what point does state taxpayer funding outweigh tax revenues created by jobs in an industry that no longer provides steady long-term employment?
Texas: State Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) spending at least 60-thousand tax dollars to get rid of an estimated several hundred sewer rats at their Austin HQ. The Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) questions the payment because state agencies are supposed to go through the TFC with any building maintenance problems, which the HHSC did not. Veteran Texas cops began operation Government Crime Stoppers, aimed at politicians! Whistleblowers can get up to $10-thousand USD for ratting-out politicians who commit crimes: “We’re looking for corrupt government officials, which has been a problem throughout the state. ….Twenty-five years ago I was hoping for something like this.”-James ‘Perry’ Huckaba
Utah: A state resident was sentenced to two years in federal prison after he was caught stealing $3.4-million USD in U.S. Army equipment at Dugway Proving Grounds. The stolen medical equipment and vision devices ended up with U.S. wholesalers and retailers. Youth suicide in the Mormon dominated state approaching record levels, four times faster than the national average according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC study also indicated that the three official anti-suicide programs in Utah are not working.
Washington: King County Superior Court ruled that Seattle’s left-wing-liberal income tax solely on wealthy people is illegal: “The city knowingly violated several laws in imposing this tax.”-Brian T. Hodges, attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation
It should be noted that the tax system in Washington is considered the most repressive in the United States for poor people, meaning poor people pay a higher percentage of tax than rich people.
Washington DC: The federal government admitted that a U.S. citizen is being detained in Iraq by the U.S. Department of Defense, without legal recourse!
West Virginia: China Energy is making a 20 years $84-billion USD investment into petroleum operations within the state, and state and federal (Team Trump) government leaders refuse to give any details about it, or how it came to be. The state Division of Corrections shutdown a 34 years old prisoner work-release center supposedly due to fire code violations. Kanawha County Magistrate Jack Pauley pled guilty to charges of making court decisions that resulted in two men dying! Judge Pauley told the court he made the decisions in haste in an effort to expedite court cases. His punishment could be a slap-on-the-wrist 45 day suspension!
Wisconsin: After spending years driving away good paying jobs, Right to Work (you over) Scott Walker now wants taxpayers to spend $7-million USD to bring good paying jobs back!
Governing.com: Sexual Harassment Investigations Are Kept Secret in Wisconsin, and That’s How Lawmakers Want It.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Government Shenanigans, October 2017: “WHO’S PROFITING…?”
ObamaCare ACA Death Spiral, November 2017: “SEVERAL SYSTEM AND CONTROL FAILURES”
Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., November 2017: “CLOSING WAS THE ONLY OPTION.”